Shoutout to the folks at Polytechnique (Montréal & Palaiseau) for their work just out in @Nature on how kirigami principles✂️ can be applied to make parachutes 🪂
Mucus films cover lung airways, but when do they block them? Beyond thickness and volume, intermediate films develop humps whose sliding and nonlinear growth can robustly form plugs, independent of gravity and ciliary transport.
Read more at https://t.co/aWlvaLlpJU
I am teaching Intro to Robotics again at @Princeton. New this year: final project where students use imitation learning to make drones navigate! Starter code will be publicly available.
All other course materials (lecture videos, notes, etc.) from F'22:
https://t.co/7riiMZ4gPh
Happy to share our last paper 👉 https://t.co/cmwPEm8x1m where we show how beads can turn flexible fiber networks into load-bearing structures. Fun to build, tricky to crack—these metamaterials keep you on your toes! (literally) @LaurenDreier@Trev_J_Jones
More on collective behavior: Our new Annual Review of Biophysics piece - with the stellar Danielle Chase - explores how animals sense, share information, and make group decisions. In honeybees and beyond 🐝
https://t.co/UcuG35gUu5
Inspired by biological growth, scientists have developed a 3D printing method that ''grows'' objects from liquid resin using a self-propelling chemical reaction.
This approach enables the creation of beautiful, complex shapes like this helical horn.
👉 https://t.co/1AWP1doWHm
Are you interested in a postdoc in fluid mechanics/ 3d printing/ soft robotics/ active matter... This call might be for you https://t.co/KWExpMmi5B
Reach out if interested, I am now in Belgium @KU_Leuven
Augmented snap-through instability of folded strips, Tom Marzin, Barath Venkateswaran, Thomas Baroux, and P.-T. Brun #Materials https://t.co/T5Zc4ghGHr
Our article on the junction of slender objects under tension has just been published @ESPCI_Paris! We discuss a cool phenomenon found in numerous systems, from kirigamis, kuttsukigami, and inflatables to more traditional tearing and peeling
https://t.co/ohrkqa6ppo
Advertisement for an advanced course in Udine, Italy 🇮🇹 this summer ☀️. Learn about mechanics for the fabrication and programming of soft robots 🦑. https://t.co/72PJXuY2KG
organized along with @biosoftact
Using propulsion systems like bows and spearthrowers, researchers have found that flexible, weighted-tip projectiles that wobble when thrown can achieve a kinetic energy gain of 160% over rigid ones.
Read the paper in Physical Review E: https://t.co/SdNFXZWWD3
Explore human-AI interactions in virtual reality at @the_leonardo in Salt Lake City, UT. It’s part of “Spiraling Upwards,” the traveling exhibit organized by @apsfluiddynamic.
The exhibit closes Jan. 31: https://t.co/tc0puUZhck
📷 Hyun Cho
Our paper on multi-DOF origami metamaterials has been published in Physical Review Research
Imada and Tachi "Maxwell origami tube."
https://t.co/bQDDFFdqQO
Researchers have devised a simplified description of the mechanical properties of intertwined materials. The work could have implications for the development of a wide variety of materials, from conventional clothing to smart textiles and soft robotics. https://t.co/WqwYk9g5sk
Fresh off the press @NatureComms, our work on wing deployment in Drosophila 🪰:
https://t.co/ikMkvsS7Ey
Work by: @HadjajeS, @Ignacio00432963, Marie-Julie Dalbe and Raphaël Clément
Showcase your #softmatter#science at APS Global Physics Summit 2025! 🤩Indicate your intent to submit a Gallery of Soft Matter poster or video here before Jan 10, 2025: https://t.co/3Ik2Pr4zcq (Final submissions due in Feb!)
🌀 Spiraling Upward, the 2nd Traveling Gallery of Fluid Motion, is free on Monday, Nov. 25 for all APS DFD Meeting attendees—just show your badge! No registration required for general entry.
📍 Location: The Leonardo Museum